**Author details**

Laís Verdan Dib1 \*, João Pedro Siqueira Palmer1 , Camila de Souza Carvalho Class de Lima1 , Otilio Machado Pereira Bastos1 , Claudia Maria Antunes Uchôa1 , Maria Regina Reis Amendoeira2 , Augusto Cezar Machado Pereira Bastos1 and Alynne da Silva Barbosa1,2

1 Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Biomedical Institute, Federal Fluminense University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2 Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro), Toxoplasmosis and other Protozooses, Laboratory, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

\*Address all correspondence to: laisvdib@gmail.com

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